Bit like when we used to take the Littlewood girls to RAF Gaydon or the inner and outer circle route from the Tower ballroom, never any shortages of volunteersWhen I worked for Claribel Coaches 1966-69 I used to take the students to Snowdonia for outward bound training, I would take them, leave them and fetch them back the following week. They also used to go to Scotland for ski-ing in the winter, the driver that took them there used to stay with them all the time that they were there. That was a cream job, never did manage to do that one.
Just found this photo on Ebay. Never heard of this place before. Interested reading the posts on here.
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I went to Green Lanes School and they discovered I had spinal curvature so I was sent to Anstey College. It was on Chester Road just up from Chester Road Station and although I was only 9, I was told that it was indeed a PE Teacher training college. I lived in Court Lane and used to walk both to school and home from school as the S73 midland red bus did not run at the right times to use it. I believe it ran as the S73 from Beggars Bush to Chester Road tram terminus and then changed number and ran along Boldmere Road and back then reverted to the Chester Road run. I never knew if those ladies cured my spinal curvature
Bob
Lady P And Paula.Our 'little red bus' was either the S67 or the S76, can't remember which one went down Court Lane and which one went down Goosemoor Lane. I'm sure somebody will put me right.
Anstey College was demolished to make way for a shared ownership/social housing development. We were re-building our scout den after an arson attack and bought their gym floor. A team took the floor up and numbered each piece so that it would all fit together again. It still had the rubbers screwed to the bottom as the floor had originally been sprung. Needless to say these were removed as the boys didn't need any more bounce!
An imposing building.A good front view of the College.
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